| Description | It is Sam Fitton's illustrations which comprise the single greatest class of original material found here. Of these, the cartoons are the most prolific. However, there is little original material here which reflects Sam Fitton's published work, suggesting that these illustrations did not achieve that status. The newspaper cuttings do provide some complement to the original material which is present, particularly as an indicator of his output of cartoons about the cotton industry. His literary and dramatic works are largely a miscellany of playlets, patter, verse, some dialect writing, more formal short plays, and a short novel. Many of these bear incidental drawings, as do some of the less numerous musical works. These texts and scores, as with the illustrations, no doubt only represent a proportion of Fitton's total output, which has yet to be fully assessed. Jane Fitton's papers are sparse, as are the personal papers. Some few photographs, photographic copies of original works, printed material and ephemera are held. |